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Industry Stalwarts Jury
1. Each team shall consist of a maximum of 3 members, including:
- 1 CXO-level representative (e.g., CISO, CTO, CIO, Head of Security, etc.)
- Up to 2 supporting team members (engineering, security, compliance, or IT professionals)
2. All members must be from the same organization. Inter-organization teams are not allowed.
3. Each organization can nominate a maximum of 2 teams.
4. Team name should be unique, and must not include your company name or any version of 'Cywayz'.
Problem Statements
PS ID-01
Cyber Budget Optimization
Explore frameworks for allocating cybersecurity spend against risk, demonstrate ROI metrics for tools and personnel, and share real-world cost-vs-benefit analyses.
PS ID-02
Board-Level Strategy
Outline your Security Operations Center's structure—technology stack, staffing model, SIEM/UEBA integration—and highlight how 24X7 monitoring and threat hunting capabilities align with business objectives.
PS ID-03
Risk Management Framework Integration
Show how you embedded a formal risk framework (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF) into board reporting—linking cyber risks to strategic goals, compliance obligations, and enterprise-wide risk registers.
PS ID-04
Cybersecurity Metrics & KPIs for the Board
Present a dashboard of critical KPIs (MTTR, dwell time, incident volume, budget variance) and explain how you distilled operational data into simple, actionable board-level insights.
PS ID-05
Cloud Security Investment Strategies
Detail your approach to funding cloud security initiatives—covering identity, data protection, and workload posture management—and the business case that justified shifting resources to IaaS/PaaS environments.
PS ID-06
AI/ML-Driven Threat Detection
Describe the pilot or rollout of AI/ML tools in your SOC, the upfront investment and ongoing costs, and the measurable improvement in detection accuracy or analyst efficiency that you reported to the board.
PS ID-07
Cyber Insurance & Financial Resilience
Share your risk-transfer strategy: selecting insurers, negotiating premiums, defining coverage limits, and integrating cyber insurance metrics into the overall risk financing plan presented at board level.
PS ID-08
Governance & Compliance Roadmap
Map out your multi-year plan for achieving and maintaining compliance (e.g., GDPR, PDPL, PCI-DSS), including phased investments, milestone KPIs, and governance structures you’ve placed under the board’s purview.
PS ID-09
Cyber Security for AI/ML
Implement end-to-end protections across the AI/ML lifecycle: enforce data lineage and integrity checks; conduct adversarial robustness and poisoning tests; secure training and inference with encryption and isolated environments; deploy runtime anomaly detection for model drift and inference attacks; maintain audit trails, explainability, and governance controls; and integrate MLOps security pipelines to prevent unauthorized access and model exfiltration.
PS ID-10
Third-Party & Supply-Chain Blind Spots
Boards often approve supplier contracts without fully understanding cascading cyber risks—e.g., how a vendor breach could compromise critical data or operations.
PS ID-11
Talent Shortage & Skill Gaps
Recruiting and retaining skilled security analysts, threat hunters, and architects remains a perennial challenge—especially for 24×7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs).
PS ID-12
Operationalizing Cyber Strategy
Translating board-approved cyber budgets and policies into day-to-day controls, processes, and measurable KPIs (e.g., patch cadence, incident response playbook maturity).
PS ID-13
Ransomware readiness
Implement an AI-enhanced resilience program with immutable, automated backups and recovery validation; proactive threat hunting for pre-encryption indicators; adaptive micro-segmentation to contain lateral movement; integrated SIEM/XDR alerts for anomalous file-encryption behavior; executive tabletop simulations with negotiation and legal playbooks; and cyber-insurance alignment for streamlined claims and rapid recovery.
PS ID-14
Supply Chain Management
Implementing continuous monitoring and contract clauses that enforce minimum-security requirements for partners, vendors, and supply-chain entities.
PS ID-15
ESG & Cyber Security
Embed cybersecurity KPIs into environmental, social, and governance frameworks to enhance investor confidence and meet evolving disclosure standards.
PS ID-16
Quantum-Safe Architecture
Roadmap to Post-Quantum Cryptography Outline phased adoption of quantum-resistant algorithms across critical systems, estimate budget impacts, and present a mitigation timeline aligned with global standardization efforts.
PS ID-17
SaaS Selection Strategy
Establish a rigorous vendor evaluation framework—assess security posture, data residency, compliance certifications, integration ease, and SLA robustness—to ensure SaaS solutions align with enterprise risk appetite and drive operational efficiency.
PS ID-18
Managing Evolving Threat Landscape
Implement a continuous threat-intelligence program—leverage global feeds, predictive analytics, and red teaming—to anticipate emerging attack vectors, prioritize defenses, and report shifting risk profiles to the board.
PS ID-19
Digital Transformation Pressures Handling
Embed security into agile delivery—integrate DevSecOps practices, enforce API and cloud configuration standards, and monitor shadow IT—to accelerate innovation while maintaining robust risk controls.
PS ID-20
Regulatory & Compliance Mandates Management
Map all applicable regulations (GDPR, PDPL, PCI-DSS, industry-specific mandates) to a centralized GRC framework, define clear ownership, and present audit-readiness metrics and remediation roadmaps at board level.
PS ID-21
Balancing Security & Business
Translate security investments into business enablers—align controls with revenue goals, quantify risk reduction versus opportunity cost, and illustrate how security underpins customer trust and market competitiveness.
PS ID-22
Data Privacy Implementation Strategy
Design a privacy-by-design program—catalog data flows, enforce classification and access policies, deploy consent-management tooling, and track key privacy metrics to demonstrate compliance and build stakeholder confidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your corporate best practices on cybersecurity/AI solution will be evaluated on:
- Innovation, feasibility, and scalability
- Strategic clarity & vision
- Business impact & outcome metrics
- Relevance to modern threats/compliance
- CXO usability
- CXO communication style and leadership
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